Children killing children in Kenya: Calls for justice dominate requiem mass for 16 victims of girls’ school fire
During the memorial service, hundreds of students from Utumishi Girls Academy sang a sombre hymn declaring that all shall be well. One of the presiding officials reminisced about being a victim of Kenya’s deadliest school fire in 2001 in which 67 boys died in a dormitory blaze in Machakos County in eastern Kenya.
Public inquest told Endarasha Hillside Academy dormitory did not have CCTV cameras
A public inquest into the Hillside Endarasha Academy dormitory fire that claimed the lives of 21 boys on September 5, 2024 heard on Monday that the two dormitories did not have CCTV cameras. During the inquest which resumed on Monday before Senior Resident Magistrate, Mary Gituma, a Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV)...
Education minister says Kenyan government will engage striking lecturers to resolve salaries dispute
According to Ogamba, SRC has maintained that money owed to the lecturers was Ksh624 million instead of the Ksh7.9 billion as claimed by the universities Union, as part of the 2017-2021 and 2021-2025 Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBAs).
